Insofar as consciousness has a functional role in facilitating learning and behavioral control,
the builders of autonomous Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are likely to attempt to …

Nowadays there is a tendency to highlight the significant contribution of students' socio-
emotional perceptions about academic motivation and expectations in Higher Education …

Animals choose a course of action countless times each day. To do so, they need to
prioritise their behaviour within a set of alternative actions and decide which of these actions …

Insofar as phenomenal affect and self-awareness imply a capacity for suffering, the position
of an AI system that is conscious and that, furthermore, is constrained to obey its human …

Based on Piaget's theory of cognitive development and an extension of the Engagement-
Reflection model of creativity, the Developmental Engagement-Reflection (Dev ER) model …

Of the two trillion beverage containers produced globally every year, most are not recycled.
To increase recycling rates, the bottle deposit refund system has been proposed and …

Despite the climate emergency, few people are acting on climate change. One potential
reason for inaction is that climate communication often focuses on the negative effects of …

To the extent that the performance of embodied and situated cognitive agents is predicated
on fore-thought, such agents must remember, and learn from, the past to predict the future. In …

This two-part course focuses on the key insight into the nature of mind and society—namely,
that minds and their social dynamics are fundamentally computational processes and can …

dc. description. abstract Markov decision processes are sequential decision-making
processes in which the learning agent senses the world's state, evaluates the expected …